With the increasing use of geographical data in real-world applications, Geographic Information Systems (GISs) have recently emerged as a fruitful area for research. Nowadays, a G...
Shu-Ching Chen, Xinran Wang, Naphtali Rishe, Mark ...
This paper presents a technique for simultaneous targeting and design in cooling water systems comprising of at least two cooling towers and several cooling water using operations...
Current research in autonomic computing suffers from the lack of a common definition of the basic autonomic entities. Defining and developing the basic autonomic entities and maki...
M. Muztaba Fuad, Debzani Deb, Michael J. Oudshoorn
Quorum protocols offer several benefits when used to maintain replicated data but techniques for reducing overheads associated with them have not been explored in detail. It is d...
Lei Kong, Deepak J. Manohar, Mustaque Ahamad, Arun...
This paper borrows ideas from social science to inform the design of novel "sensing" user-interfaces for computing technology. Specifically, we present five design chall...
Victoria Bellotti, Maribeth Back, W. Keith Edwards...